12. What's the temp there? Hope you have heat.

63. Snow and wind gusts are amazing. Still have power.

For how long...??? Trees are touching the ground here. Very heavy snow. My Sis and I are tag teaming the shoveling. We are trying to keep our Mom's stairs clear. Neither of us can lift a foot of snow. The joke is, that as soon as one of us comes in, the stairs are covered again!

52. Oh, wow. So no driving out of there. How deep is it?

60. It's actually not that deep as of yet, but it's really starting to pick up now.

I have a car but it's parked in a friends outdoor parking lot around the corner and I rarely drive it, my main mode of transportation is a Sym Symba cub motorcycle. So it looks like it will be public transportation for me. I'm off til monday so hopefully plows will come through. They're usually pretty good around here.

67. Reliable public transportation is a great advantage.

It is here except when its icy and some of the downtown areas have steep hills. That is generally time to set off on foot or skis. Or with snowmobiles as we had a couple of years ago here. The snow was really nice until the traffic got going and then it got really gross. Take care.

17. If the wind is blowing, I'm guessing it feels colder than 27 and the ground is very slippery.

22. Oh, it's wicked cold in the breeze.

I went out to observe the fire crews nearby (the power lines got ripped off a house and there was concern over a fire- good news is there wasn't one) about 9:15 and it was awful. The sleet on the face was the worst. It's 25 now and back to snow thankfully. The sleet with 25 mph winds was driving me nuts with the racket it made on the house.

53. Nothing,absoluteley nothing.will ever compare to 1978. You were here for

69. You are right!

This (I'm prepared to eat my words!) will not compare to the blizzard of 1978 when I worked in New Haven, CT and lived much further east along the CT shoreline. At that time there were still tolls on on Connecticut Turnpike (I-95) and you could not STOP at a toll, you sorta had to ease through. If you stopped, that was it, you were stuck for the duration. Then I was fortunate to get behind a semi that paved the way through the next two tolls, and I was able to get off my exit and up the steep hill to my home - with a 5-speed stick transmission (Datsun 710 wagon). Wow, whata ride....took 4 hours in a normally 1 hour drive. Many, many cars were abandoned along 95, that was very un-nerving in itself and I read in the paper that many people were stranded in their cars. That very winter was my motivation to move south and I did. Still I miss New England every single day.

20. lights are flickering off & on

we've lost electricity for about 5min earlier.
Probably a foot of snow so far..... what's really creepy is the winds, several pine trees close to the house.
Read some where on the board, that they evacuating Scituate & Marshfield I'm about 15mls west of there. Haven't seen anything on the news so far.

21. Oh NO!

45. thank you for your concern, just lost internet back on

Yes we do, but if lights stay out we lose heat, don't have a generator.
We'll all be glad when this is over, will have allot of shoveling to do.
On Cape Cod they're experiencing 70ml hr winds, we're going to stay about 50.

30. They are just evacuating the homes along the shore.

43. Scituate and Marshfield near the ocean--they are expecting a storm surge.

If you're off the beach, you're OK. Sandwich is taking a beating, too, with sketchy power. Some of my friends down there have had flickering lights and a few are on generators...

A flood warning is in effect until Saturday noon for the state’s east-facing coastline. The National Weather Service warned of moderate to major coastal flooding at high tide Saturday morning, with large waves and a 2- to 3-foot storm surge that could damage shorefront homes, cause beach erosion, and make some coastal roads temporarily impassable.

Marshfield, Revere, Scituate, Sandwich Harbor and the east coast of Nantucket were among the areas that could be vulnerable to major flooding, according to the weather service.

Scituate Town Administrator Patricia Vinchesi said a shelter was set up at the high school.

“We’ve advised the residents in the areas most prone to coastal flooding to seek alternate shelter before the storm and definitely before the high tides, and we’re particularly emphasizing that to residents in the northern part of Humarock,” she said.

27. Southern Californian here. I wish you all: safety, warmth, plenty of food and fresh water

and toilets that don't back up or freeze up. I wish you as little inconvenience as possible. I had to pull my kid's band off the big tour they were on - because tonight, tomorrow night, and Sunday night were in the belly of the northeastern beast. Near Syracuse tonight, coastal Connecticut tomorrow, and back up near Albany Sunday. YIKES. We were asked what they were driving and were then told that if they even made it there in time for tonight's show, they probably wouldn't be able to get out. So I got them out early. Tour ends on Sunday night anyway. And I'm wondering if maybe some of the dates get canceled - since who would want to go out on a night like this? And aren't people in that area being told not to? I'm hoping the headliner act is safe and secure. They were gonna soldier on. But they at least have a nice big tour bus - and even more important, a nice experienced professional tour bus driver.

28. Looking blizzardy here ....

I'm in Southern Litchfield County, Connecticut. Remember once driving in the Cleveland, OH area during a blizzard and it looks like that now .... very, very windy.

Amazingly, our cats are both perfectly calm right now, even when a sudden gust of wind makes the door whistle a bit. (Think I'm going to try putting some tape around the door to stop that. Not sure it'll help, but ....)

I actually saw three people going down our street on snowmobiles about an hour ago! Wow....

EDIT: Hoping we don't lose power because that means .... no lights, no heat, no internet, no running water (& only 2 "normal" flushes of the toilet), no cooking (elec. stove), no phone except cellphones (if we get a signal --- in Oct 2011 storm, we had to drive about 10 mins away to get a signal). We all (2 people, 2 cats) will all be huddled on the Tempurpedic bed under down comforters and other blankets, and humans dressed in thermals.

82. Yep, exactly

All prepared with everything you mentioned and we have a large funnel with a washing machine drainage tube to go into the tank (there's a shelf over the tank, so we can't hold the pail over it to pour in).

We were without all of the above for 9 days during the Oct. 2011 freak snowstorm. Keeping things refrigerated won't be a problem, though. We fill Ziplock bags with snow and pack them all around items in the fridge. When the snow melts, the bags get emptied into the bathtub for toilet flushing duty.... rinse and repeat.

EDIT: Oh, and we've got the thermostat set ridiculously high tonight. That way, if we lose power/heat, it'll take longer for the place to actually get cold.

33. 17 miles north of Boston

and snow has been coming down hard and blowing sideways for hours here. In fact the windows are completely covered so now we can't even look out to watch the snow! And very, very windy too. Watching back to back episodes of Mad Men on Netflix and hoping we don't lose power. Nemo is quite the storm!

36. midcoast Maine here

We had about 11-12" by the time I got home from work at 6:45. The snow was teeny flakes and not much wind, so I had an easy drive home.

It's picked up in the last hour or two, looks like it's back to an inch/hour, and more horizontal now. We should be getting another 11" or so over night, and then another 8 on top, so about 30" total.

I'm just now starting to hear the wind a little in the treetops. Not really loud yet, but a quiet white noise and now and then a little howl in the distance. Very subdued, I have to sit very quietly to hear it. I am glad they closed work early: normally I'd just be headed out the door and it's just starting to get bad.

It's cold here and getting colder -- mid-teens at best -- so the snow is very light and fluffy and not the kind to bring down wires. With the wind, it's not piling up on the roof either. I do have backup heat if we lose power, so am hunkered down with heat cranked a bit more than usual. I'll be able to move my freezer food into the unheated sun room and have enough to last for weeks for everybody. I've also got 4 very tall buckets of water set aside for my horse, a smaller bucket for the dogs, plus 5 gallons for me. And of course plenty of snow to melt to keep us going, plus cocoa and maple syrup for the obligatory french toast.

64. Boston traffic cams... pretty empty!

66. How kind of you!

Here in Foxboro, MA, I've gone out to shovel my deck 5 or 6 times already. My shoulders and arms are going to fall off. My husband is out trying to fix the snow blower my dad bought back in 1979! It was still working perfectly, up until about 15 mins. ago. We're hoping it's just overheated. Meanwhile, we're lucky that we still have power, but the lights have been dimming. It's a very heavy snow, and it's sticking to everything. We even had lightning! But, all in all, it's exciting and really something to watch. Don't mess with Mother Nature!

79. So far, not as bad as I feared (just north of NYC). . .

It's getting near midnight, and so far, looking at the weather maps, it looks like my area is getting only the western and southern ends of this storm. Helluva lot better than further east and north of me.

The worst of it should be over in a few hours. Probably a foot of snow.
Anyways, we have the rest of the weekend to dig out, and the snow removal folks are pretty efficient where I am.

81. Stay safe everyone.

83. In Peabody Ma at the moment

We are close to having the cars dug out. About 28 inches is my guess. Snow drifts much higher. Tried to go check on my place in Salem last evening, but by the time I got to my neighborhood I realized it wasn't plowed yet. It will probably be a few days before I go home.

This storm was huge, I can't recall anything quite so bad since 78. The snow is very wet and heavy. Hard to shovel.

Even the main roads are not completely plowed, driving means driving on packed snow.